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Sorry, left out the classifications: Classification: Remote device, counter-magic...
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Remote Anti-Transcendental Field Generator (RATFiG) This device is used to neutralize summoning grids and and other hazards whose curve geometry definitions rely on pi. RATFiG works by changing pi from a transcendental number to a rational one (i.e., it allows...
Commented on Updating a classic
Because data retention is so damned important, every time that vendors update their formats or come out with major revisions of their software, require that employees open all of their files with the new version and re-save it natively to...
Commented on Cloud cuckoo politics
Call me paranoid, but his proposition seems so dangerously ludicrous that it looks to be intentional. To wit, he'll walk back his drastic proposal to something that is relatively more "reasonable", which will be the unstated thing he really wanted...

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Hieronymus Goth commented on Competition Time!
Name Bokor's Pistol Classification Unconventional weaponry level 3: Samedi Class Deployment Should the need ever arise for the building or repair of a containment grid akin to the “Wall of Pain” (See CODICIL BLACK SKULL), The Bokor's Pistol will allow for the establishment of such a perimeter without the need for a trained sorcerer. A Bokor's Pistol is very similar in form and function to a Taser or stun gun. Aside from the standard components, it's body contains a small computer programmed to rapidly iterate the theorems of an obedience geas, while each ammunition cartridge holds an occult capacitor containing...
Charlie Stross commented on Competition Time!
REMINDER: COMPETITION ENDS IN SIX HOURS' TIME (and small-change minutes) I'll be closing comments tomorrow morning, and come back with a list of winners (assuming they're eligible) at the weekend....
Catherine Taylor commented on Competition Time!
[Please Note: this entry has pictures and having them open and looking at them while reading will make it a lot more fun] Picture Evidence of Anomalies NAME Colloquially known in Occult circles as “The Twins”, although those who know about these artefacts are not usually allowed free roam. The left “twin” has a complex nomenclature due to its lengthy travels along trading routes and is usually referred to by the name of the culture it currently resides in. Most recently known as “Loki's Tooth” or “The Lambton Worm's Tooth[1]”. The right twin has only ever had a single name:...
Philippa Cowderoy commented on Competition Time!
[Ineligible: Not my first, failed to apply to its own entry] Name: Temporal Adjustment Realigning Deadlines for Improved Service (TARDIS) Classification: Cheating Description: It can look like whatever the hell it wants, it's still not going to win, okay?...
Charlie Stross commented on Competition Time!
THE COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. Potential winners to be checked for eligibility in a couple of days. Thanks for participating!...

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Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)

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